Light tubes or light pipes are physical structures used for transporting or distributing natural or artificial light for the purpose of illumination, and are examples of optical waveguides . In their application...

Solar 1 is New York City’s only self-sustaining solar powered building. It has educational facilities for Solar One, a non-profit organization concerned with green energy, arts, and education. [1] The Solar 1...

Solar air heating is a solar thermal technology in which the energy from the sun, insolation , is captured by an absorbing medium and used to heat air. [1] Solar air heating is a renewable energy heating technology used to...

A trombe wall is a passive solar building where a wall is built on the wall of a building with a glass external layer and a high heat capacity separated by a layer of air. Light in the electromagnetic spectrum then passes...

TRNSYS is a simulation program Primarily used in the fields of renewable energy engineering and building simulation for passive as well as active solar design. TRNSYS is a commercial software package developed at...

The Sun Ship is a large integrated office / retail building designed by Rolf Disch and located in Freiburg directly next to the Solar Settlement by the same designer. It uses 60,000 sq. ft. for retail, commercial and...

Solar shingles , also called photovoltaic shingles , are solar panels designed to be used as a propulsion machine, such as asphalt shingle or slate, while also producing electricity. Solar shingles are a type of solar...

The US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is an international collegiate competition made up of 10 contests that challenge student teams to design and build full-size, solar-powered houses. The winner of the competition is...

A solar chimney – is referred to as a thermal chimney – a way of improving the natural ventilation of buildings by using convection of air heated by passive solar energy . A simple description of a solar...

The Solar Ark (ソーラーアーク) is an ark-shaped solar photovoltaic power generation facility qui offers activities to cultivate a better appreciation of solar power generation, and thereby benefitting Both ecology...

In passive solar building design , windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, and distribute solar energy in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design...

Powerhouse is an alliance of companies dedicated to building PlusEnergy buildings. The cooperation Consists of property developers Entra Eiendom and Skanska AB , architect company Snøhetta , the environmental NGO Zero...

MoreEnergy is a term used in building design to describe a structure that produces more energy than it uses. The term was coined in 1994 by Rolf Disch when building his private residence, the Heliotrope as the first...

The double-skin facade is a system of building two skins, or facades , placed in such a way that flows into the intermediate cavity. The ventilation of the cavity can be natural, fan supported or mechanical. Apart from the...

Solar hot water systems use pumps or fans to circulate fluid (Often a mixture of water and glycol to prevent prevention freezing during winter periods) air gold through solar collectors , and are therefore classified under...

Active daylighting is a system of collecting sunlight using a mechanical device to increase the efficiency of light collection. Active daylighting systems are different from passive daylighting systems in that passive systems...

Solar architecture is an architecture approach that takes into account the Sun to harness clean and renewable solar power . It is related to the fields of optics , thermics , electronics and materials...

SolarWall was invented by Conserval Engineering’s president, John Hollick in the late 1980s. SolarWall is a new invention for solar collectors. SolarWall systems are building integrated and consist of perforated metal...

Central solar heating is the provision of central heating and hot water from solar energy by a system in qui the water is heated centrally by arrays of solar thermal collectors ( central solar heating plants –...

Concentrated solar power (also called Expired concentrating solar power , Concentrated solar thermal , and CSP ) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a wide area of sunlight, or thermal...